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This paper consists of six pages and analyzes the symbolism that appears throughout each short story. Two sources are cited in th...

In five pages this paper analyzes the short story by Stephen King in terms of character, setting, theme, and point of view. There...

and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...

In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...

Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...

formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...

to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...

OConnors most controversial and problematic short stories (Clark 66). There are really only two characters in this story-the grand...

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

of such an objective that one becomes labeled as selfish and intolerant of commonly accepted methods. This negative connotation o...

Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...

fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...